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Correlation: Sitting Is Bad For Your Health And Exercise Won't Help

Advances in technology in recent decades have obviated the need and desire for humans to move....

It's About Calories, So Kimchi Is Not A Weight Loss Superfood - But You May Eat Less

Fermented foods have become popular in recent years, partly due to their perceived health benefits....

Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior

Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because...

Why Does Anyone Still Search For The Loch Ness Monster?

Hugh Gray was taking his usual post-church walk around Loch Ness in Scotland on a November Sunday...

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Bubonic Plague Linked To Climate Change In Asia

Bubonic Plague Linked To Climate Change In Asia

Feb 24 2015 | comment(s)


Credit: L. Sabetelli / Wellcome, CC BY

The Black Death struck Europe in 1347, killing 30-50% of the European population in six violent years.

It wasn’t a one-off epidemic: it signaled the start of the second plague pandemic in Europe that lasted for hundreds of years and only slowly disappeared from the continent after the Great Plague of London in 1665-1666.

Is A 'Sobriety Pill' In Our Future?

Is A 'Sobriety Pill' In Our Future?

Feb 24 2015 | comment(s)

Berry Hepatitis A Scare Leads To Calls For Imported Food Accountability

Berry Hepatitis A Scare Leads To Calls For Imported Food Accountability

Feb 24 2015 | comment(s)


Do you care where the food you buy comes from? amy, CC BY-NC

The public reaction to the Hepatitis A scare linked to contaminated frozen berries imported from China continues.

How Vaccines Changed Our Perceptions Of Disease

How Vaccines Changed Our Perceptions Of Disease

Feb 22 2015 | comment(s)


Health marketing materials used to promote measles vaccine during the 1960s. CDC

The news on the current measles outbreak contains plenty of reminders that measles causes brain damage, pneumonia, hearing loss and death. A few lone voices have spoken up to say measles isn’t that serious, including an Arizona doctor who said it’s “really just a fever and a rash” – and soon found himself under investigation by his state’s medical board.

American Sniper Is More Nuanced Than Its Critics Admit

American Sniper Is More Nuanced Than Its Critics Admit

Feb 22 2015 | comment(s)

Rethinking The Relationship Between Forensic Evidence And The Law

Rethinking The Relationship Between Forensic Evidence And The Law

Feb 20 2015 | comment(s)